>Tolerance is not a moral precept. Yes it is. You mean it's not a moral precept that you value. > I do not falsely equate attempts to deny people fair civil r

>Tolerance is not a moral precept. Yes it is. You mean it's not a moral precept that you value. > I do not falsely equate attempts to deny people fair civil rights (as the modern GOP does routinely, in terms of race, gender, gender identity, and so many other ways) as “opinion” so much as institutionalized violence. Welcome to the logic of the left wing extremist: speech that he or she disagrees with isn't actually speech, it's violence. After all his politics are self-evidently synonymous with justice, therefore any criticism is synonymous with hatred and bigotry. There will never be any criticism of his politics, no matter how measured, no matter how tame, that he will not consider hate speech.